{"id":6924,"date":"2012-01-27T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2012-01-27T09:07:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:07:43","slug":"how_bad_off_are_the_mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/how_bad_off_are_the_mets.html","title":{"rendered":"How Bad Off Are The Mets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/new-york\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/7495352\/new-york-mets-financial-calamity-threatens-engulf-mets\">This bad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Meanwhile, belt-tightening has contributed to layoffs. The team acknowledged a 10 percent reduction in baseball operations staff late last year. The Mets&#8217; Pacific Rim scout is among those out of work. One minor league team has been abolished. Even a 61-year-old employee with cerebral palsy who worked at the team&#8217;s Port St. Lucie, Fla., minor league complex and who earned only $3,000 last year was axed, according to organization sources. A Mets official insisted the dismissal was merely part of the sound business practice any operation would undertake in streamlining expenses &#8212; not an indication of financial distress. The person argued that citing that layoff is unfairly designed to fit a narrative about the Mets&#8217; financial woes. As for the elimination of the Mets&#8217; Gulf Coast League minor league team, the organization noted that it still has more affiliates than most major league clubs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bad: Meanwhile, belt-tightening has contributed to layoffs. The team acknowledged a 10 percent reduction in baseball operations staff late last year. The Mets&#8217; Pacific Rim scout is among those out of work. One minor league team has been abolished. Even a 61-year-old employee with cerebral palsy who worked at the team&#8217;s Port St. Lucie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}